Dell RecoverPoint vs Dell SRDF (Symmetrix Remote Data Facility ) [EOL] comparison

"When it works, it is the best product that is available."

"I would rate the overall solution a 9.9 out of 10."

"The solution is very stable. Once it's installed, many customers forget they even have it."

"Customer Service: Very good, EMC did support us to implement it well and gave useful instructions and lessons to help to maintain it well."

"We have been able to achieve a very low RTO and RPO with near real-time replication policies and adequately sized journals for a limited recovery time requirement to bring systems online as well as a great recovery point to roll back to in the event of a disaster or outage."

"I would rate its stability almost a nine out of ten."

"The most valuable features include the ease of defining contingency groups and the drag-and-drop functionality, which speeds up our application processes."

"Product is self-payable, and due to the data protection provided to the IT environment, we can reach very secure operational levels."

"In all the companies in which I have used the product the ease of Disaster Recovery was implemented in such a manner that the risk of a site disaster was mitigated in an efficient way, and it made the migrations of complete data centers to other new data centers at other locations a piece of cake."

"The SRDF solution has improved our disaster recovery RPO to near zero or less than 15 minutes with RTO getting drastically reduced."

"The feature of taking snapshots from the replicated volumes has allowed us to use them for DR testing to validate the application consistent point of recovery."

"Customer Service: Very good. Technical Support: Very good."

"Customer service for this product was top notch."

"We've found the support to be very good overall."

"We've found the support to be very good overall."

"Customer Service: Top notch. Technical Support: Excellent."

"The support is horrible."

"Currently the product does not support cascaded replication, only "Y" replication."

"Dell RecoverPoint is considered an older technology and is not recommended for new deployments by Dell EMC. It requires double the storage capacity for source and target storage areas, which creates a heavy burden on storage resources."

"It is worth mentioning that this solution is no longer supported, primarily because it doesn't replicate between two different storage systems anymore."

"Dell RecoverPoint can be improved by virtualizing it, which would use less storage and enhance performance."

"Dell RecoverPoint is affordable for enterprises but not for mid-size organizations due to the required network investment for bandwidth across sites."

"The solution normally supports only specific types and amounts of storage. If it could be increased to support much larger amounts or a wider range, it could fetch a bigger market."

"The interfaces could be improved for better ease of use. There's also room for improvement in direct compatibility with other solutions."

"If you are new to the product, the initial setup might be a bit difficult."

"The main pain point that we experienced is during device creation."

"If you are new to the product, the initial setup might be a bit difficult."

"Our ROI was minimal, because we use it for a cold, disaster recovery method."

"The main pain point that we experienced is during device creation. For every newly provisioned volume, creating replication relationships between production and DR site, creating snapshots for third copy at DR site, and configuring them in appropriate replication groups and device groups means that there are lot of steps involved and a lot of room for error. There has to be a lot of checks and balances which need to be incorporated to make sure that the solution is set up correctly."

"SRDF compared with EMC Recover Point has less capabilities, for ex. CDP (local or remote) is missing, only EMC assets compatibility, as a TCO is more expensive than implementing IBM SVC or EMC VPLEX virtualization and replication (more supported assets)."

"In general, it’s very stable although some time SRDF don’t behave as expected specially if the link is not stable or saturated."

"As of late I have seen the replication drop but this was not due to the SRDF, it was due to the high rate of IO changes on the OS side."

"RecoverPoint came free as an add-on to the PowerProtect Data Manager backup software from Dell EMC."

"Support is an additional subscription."

"While I recommend Dell EMC, it depends on your specific use case. Licensing is perpetual, meaning you buy it once."

"The product is fairly priced."

"It is considered quite costly."

"The price is moderate."